Sentences with phrase «as a vehicle for»

Altaba was created amid Yahoo's sale to Verizon as a vehicle for stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.

The volatility of bitcoin has made it more useful as a vehicle for speculation than as a currency, say critics — when the value can change drastically from hour to hour, it introduces undesirable risk for sellers and buyers alike.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde highlighted cryptocurrency's potential as a vehicle for money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

While he's had some fun with #BloggerGate and used Darby's actions as a vehicle for publicity, he emphasizes that he's never explicitly mentioned her by name.

Some call them online confessionals, others believe they're merely a millennial fad, and most just see them as vehicles for inappropriate commentary.

In fact, Hub Ventures sees the tech sector as a vehicle for social impact.

But there are certainly ways to use your blog as a vehicle for such press.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

In a statement, Univision's chief news and digital officer Isaac Lee said comedy is «playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time.»

The banking giant anticipates its virtual currency, which will be sent and received via a mobile app, to function as a vehicle for near - instantaneous P2P money transfers and payments at affiliated stores, according to Japanese outlet Mainichi Newspaper.

They can be used to exchange money or assets of value across multiple blockchains, used digitally to verify identifications through ICON blockchain ID, and as a vehicle for processing smart contracts.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

In other words, Waymo is now alleging that Otto was only ever a shell company set up by Levandowski and acquired by Uber as a vehicle for gaining intellectual property stolen from Waymo.

Public employee pension funds are vulnerable to being used as a vehicle for advancing political / social goals unrelated to shareholder interests generally.

He conceived BIG Labs as a vehicle for «parallel entrepreneurship,» where he can co-create companies that can help define the future of software and technology.

Research curation as a vehicle for scientific insight and the public understanding of science Principal Investigator: Frank Bosco, Virginia Commonwealth University Co-Investigator: Piers Steel $ 50,000

They simply want to discuss mutual aid — but in a way that has no role for the US or for the dollar as a vehicle for trade among these countries.

Having a successful Canadian technology company IPO further solidifies the public markets as a vehicle for exits and capital raising.

«I don't really care that much about fancy things,» says Forleo, «but what has always been true in my heart... is that I could use money as a vehicle for healing.

While not designed as a vehicle for trading, BSCJ is liquid for retail investors» purposes, trading in strong daily volume with small spreads.

She received the money from Essential Consultants, a limited liability company that Mr Cohen set up as a vehicle for the payment.

As you determine if an annuity may be right for you, remember that they are intended as vehicles for long - term retirement planning, which is why withdrawals reduce an annuity's remaining death benefit, contract value, cash surrender value and future earnings.

It seems as if a new digital coin is launched every day — but most of them have little or no real world application other than as a vehicle for price speculation.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

Unless Bitcoin's volatility settles, it will be used less as a currency and more as a vehicle for speculation and «get rich quick» schemes, much like a penny stock.

As you determine what annuity might be right for you, remember they are intended as vehicles for long - term retirement planning, which is why withdrawals reduce an annuity's remaining death benefit, contract value, cash surrender value and future earnings.

David Sherfinski of the Washington Times: Mr. Brady described the idea of using some $ 2.5 trillion companies now have parked overseas as a vehicle for a big infrastructure investment as a «satellite» hovering around tax reform.

I will explain why lots of financial independence (FI) bloggers use investment income as a vehicle for their FI journey.

But the aboriginal showcase turned out to have larger purposes as a vehicle for the links forged and unveiled at Canberra between new theologies and environmental causes.

In the short - term that will leave openings for pseudo-candidates who are using their «presidential campaign» as a vehicle for landing a radio syndication deal.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

I'm glad this forum exists as a vehicle for her story.

«34 The player is someone who chooses a set of rules, an order, as a vehicle for the free expression of his or her joy, power, and spontaneity.

The ritual served as a vehicle for grief, just as communion serves as a vehicle for memory and baptism as a vehicle for renewal.

If there were a consensus of responsible reflection, then the adoption of that consensus as the vehicle for expression of Christian faith might be necessary.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

Honesty requires as much, and it would help to remove from him the stigma of exploiting religion as the vehicle for advancing his ambitions.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

For several centuries the church fought classical drama because it was seen as a vehicle for the propagation of pagan philosophy, and it naturally resisted the use of drama to teach the faith.

What makes the narrative so fruitful as a vehicle for a world - vision is that a narrative vision can be something which we do not simply observe or listen to.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

The ecumenical movement has therefore in many ways come to serve as a vehicle for common reflection on the challenge of contemporary ethical issues.

The pit literally served as the vehicle for elevation in the life of this Biblical hero.

He posits, for example, that Jesus in his omniscience knew that there were smaller seeds than the mustard seed, but nevertheless used «this facet of the culture of the people to whom he was speaking as a vehicle for conveying the cargo of revelational truth.

He has «come» to man in a human Life, using as the vehicle for His self - expression «that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled.»

It could be that we turn our anxieties, fears and hurts to good advantage as vehicles for obedience.

than as a vehicle for Western cultural domination.

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.